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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
9
A disparate notice lists subscribers and solicitors and city collectors, urging payment. The column blends political commentary on figures like General Miles Roosevelt and Bryan era topics, referencing digestible quips, party critiques, and calls for return to democratic ideals amid a mid-1900s newspaper style.
The governor and the assembly have ordered a thorough probe into the alleged brutal flogging of Mamie De Cris, a white woman convict at the state prison farm. Public sentiment condemns lashings of female prisoners and expects full accountability, with reforms likely after the inquiry.
The New York Sun endorses the Calvin vagrancy measure as a method to compel southern Negroes to work, arguing enforcement will ensure labor, better treatment, and a stable labor class. It claims the South wants work, not idle populations, and would prefer Negro labor under strict duties and self support.
The piece critiques a Boston suggestion to nominate General Miles against Roosevelt within the Republican Party. It cites Roosevelt’s alleged snub of Miles’s retirement, recalls Roosevelt’s 1898 praise of Miles in the Spanish American War, and questions the political viability of challenging a popular incumbent amid a graft-fueled factional split.
The piece surveys Republican prospects with General Miles, notes mixed Northern reaction to peonage cases, and cites The San Francisco News-Letter arguing Hawaiian contract labor and peonage as harsher than antebellum slavery. It recalls allegations of coercive labor in the South tied to freedmen's bureau and ends with a call for self scrutiny.
The piece mocks William Franklin Gore Shanks for attacking Watsons Life and Times of Jefferson, labeling Shanks a social and literary tramp with a biased view. It argues Watson’s rigorous research will outlast Shanks and stresses that historical biography requires a stable basis beyond Shanks’s unfounded opinions.
The president’s letter to Indiana Governor Durbin condemns lynching and urges swift court action under state law. It expresses horror at heinous offenses and emphasizes opposition to lynch law, though the wording suggests the missive could have been better addressed to Durbin.
The governor is accused of violating the national constitution by refusing to extradite an indicted fugitive accomplice in the murder of a governor-elect. The president praises Durbin for aiding in the past, while critics say the governor undermines legal cooperation and state comity, risking national guidance.
Letter from LaGrange Georgia argues cotton must fetch not less than twelve cents per pound to sustain farmers and the southern economy. It links low prices to labor shifts, warns against speculation, and urges September October action to secure fair remuneration for the crop. Roster request for Walthall's Brigade from Mississippi seeks survivors for publication. CORRESPONDENT.
The Savannah Preas and Albany Herald reports highlight Atlanta stories from a street car conductor returning 200 in cash to its owner to concerns about milk and grocery fraud. Articles reference Acworth Post and Thomasville Times-Enterprise noting civic themes and upcoming depot plans.
A collage of snippets highlights Georgia themes, poems, and editorials. Notes praise Georgia, reference lynching talk in the West, celebrate local humor, and feature verses to Sidney Lanier. Grace W. Landrum signs a Georgia poetry tribute.
Savannah notes the cotton season, tax increases in Greene and Ware counties, and rising cattle prices. References debate over work laws, Roosevelt versus Cleveland, and baby carriage fund questions. Georgia’s push to attend the world fair is cited, with costs debated. A Georgia journalist’s life in Alabama is touched, and lobbying questions stir worry in Savannah.
Leslie's Weekly argues that mob violence breeds further crime and erodes social restraint. It asserts lynching harms legitimate remedies for crime, equates mob leadership with murder, and warns that provoking violence damages even worthy causes.
The text argues that upholding law makes sheriffs police and soldiers heroes of liberty. Law observance is universal, not regional, yet violence appears even in respectable communities. It condemns mob violence as morally insane, noting complicity by prominent people in Wilmington and Evansville and comparing mobs to spreading fires needing principle and courage.
A compilation of quirky clippings from state papers features gibe about women athletic feats, marriage at Coney Island, a Wisconsin man swallowing a bobbin, and playful takes on kissing and Sunday fishing. The tone mirrors old local humor columns with sharp wit and regional sketches.
City council and county commission committees meet at Mayor Howell's office to finalize street grade changes around the new Union passenger station. Plans and details will be reviewed. the county to perform grading and fill, with work expected to start soon and the city to complete its portion after.
W P Gilmore and A P Powers were arraigned in the recorders court after a Saturday afternoon fight in Powers Street and Decatur Street. Gilmore bought a dollar’s worth of wood and coal, paid, then an altercation followed. both defendants were fined one dollar and the case sent to trial for assault and fault.
A colonial report notes a planned convention by Black residents of South Carolina to discuss lynching, mob violence, and race relations. The call lists sessions and topics on preventing crimes, law enforcement, remedies for assaults, and improving interracial harmony. Signed by pastors of Columbia’s reading negro churches.
Washington reports Professor Langley and his chief assistant Manly moved their flying machine experiments from the Quantico Club quarters at Widewater Virginia to Clifton Beach eight miles away. Langley aims to escape reporters and conduct trials in secrecy while Widewater journalists vow to pursue the vigil to the new site.
United States Senators Nelson of Minneapolis Patterson of Colorado and Dillingham of Vermont were stuck on a Yukon river sand bar 20 miles above Nulato after the Steamship St Paul departed for Nome ten days earlier. Nome officials wired the Healy captain at Rampart to organize a rescue.
Carrie Nation’s conviction for selling hatchets in violation of a city ordinance was declared illegal when a writ of habeas corpus was sustained. The magistrate’s record was defective, and the case returns to seek damages. Nation’s counsel plans action against the city for damages and costs.
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